Spring 2013 Visiting Scholar: Dr. Maarit Siromaa, University of Oulu, Finland

Maarit Siromaa is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland. She is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison in April-May 2013. Maarit wrote her dissertation on Resonance in Storytelling, examining the recurrent, situated verbal, prosodic and embodied practices of stance taking in conversational stories. Maarit currently works as a researcher in an Academy of Finland funded project Social Action Formats: Linguistic, Prosodic and Embodied Practices in Spoken English and Finnish. Her postdoctoral project deals with the everyday interactional resources and practices of colleague support. She is also interested in the way in which people move in and out of various interactional situations at the workplace. In her research, she mainly draws on the methodology of Conversation Analysis and Ethnography.